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Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

What the company is calling a “glitch” kept more than 500,000 users across the world from accessing the tech giant’s platforms. Constantine von Hoffman on March 5, 2024 Meta’s online properties were down for about two hours Tuesday, preventing more than half a million Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads users from using their accounts, … Continue reading Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Salesforce says an internal action caused service outage

A permission change with Amazon Web Service prevented customers from accessing most Salesforce services for several hours. Constantine von Hoffman on September 20, 2023   There was a huge outage of Salesforce services today following an internal permission change. As a result, customers were not able to access services for several hours. “This is about … Continue reading Salesforce says an internal action caused service outage

T-Mobile outage affected thousands of users across the US

T-Mobile data breach compromised 37 million customers’ data Mariella Moon @mariella_moon T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the … Continue reading T-Mobile outage affected thousands of users across the US

Amazon Ads Reporting Outage Throws Off Calculations For Black Friday Campaign Spend

Amazon Ads Reporting Outage Throws Off Calculations For Black Friday Campaign Spend by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 30, 2022 A glitch in Amazon’s ad tools system on Black Friday caused advertisers to potentially overspend up to hundreds of thousands of dollars during the hottest holiday weekend of the year, while others underspent, causing them … Continue reading Amazon Ads Reporting Outage Throws Off Calculations For Black Friday Campaign Spend

Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing

Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing by Laurie Sullivan  @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2022 Google Search briefly experienced complications from a nearby electrical fire that lead to longer page-load times, errors, and empty search results. An electrical fire at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, injuring three electricians working on a substation … Continue reading Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing